Somerset County Council’s Leader is urging on Westminster to recognise the dire finances of local authorities in this month’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).

Cllr Osman is writing to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister spelling out the stark impact of continual funding cuts on the Council’s ability to look after its most vulnerable residents.

He is also writing to Somerset’s MPs calling on them to speak up on the County’s behalf ahead of the CSR on November 25. The review will set out the expenditure limits of Government departments, including the Department for Communities and Local Government which is expected to be asked to make savings in the region of 30 percent.

The Leader’s lobbying comes as the Council introduces a freeze on all non-essential spending to protect services for the most vulnerable.